The plot: The Cartel picks up where Winslow's 2005 novel, The Power of the Dog, left off: 2004, when America's drug war began being fought on a much larger scale. Who it's for: Anyone outraged by heroin's toll on young people, especially in the Midwest. Token line: "It's amazing how many balloons you can learn to carry in your mouth," said one dealer, who told Quinones he could fit more than 30. The plot: Quinones chronicles how sugar cane farmers from Xalisco, a tiny county near the Pacific coast, devised a system to bring black tar heroin to the veins of young, well-off Americans. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury Press) release of ZeroZeroZero, Roberto Saviano's internationally bestselling exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade, we decided to round up four cartel books that are guaranteed to blow you away, though not literally. All are gritty as hell and fascinating to watch, but nothing compares to reading a book, where you can get inside a characters' head. Or read up on El Chapo's recent prison escape. Drug violence has long been a thread in contemporary culture: Just cue up any Scorsese film or the documentary Cartel Land.
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